''Love at Absolute Zero'' is the debut album by the
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and sub ...
band
My Favorite
My Favorite are an indie pop band formed in Long Island, New York in 1991, later of Brooklyn and Queens. After releasing two full-length albums, the original band split in 2005, but reformed in 2014.
Formation and original era
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, released on Double Agent in 1999. The subject matter included the end of
new wave, the new millennium, and growing up in suburban
Long Island, New York
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.
Critical reception
AllMusic
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wrote that the album "translates palpable pre-millennial tension into neon-lit synthesizer drama—recalling the heyday of the new wave with none of the irony which sinks like-minded retro-futurists from Romania to the Rentals."
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Trouser Press
''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...
'' called it "an excellent debut, nostalgic but forward-looking at the same time."
Track listing
# Absolute Zero
# Absolute Beginners Again
# 17 Berlin
# The Truth About Lake Ronkonkama
# Let's Stay Alive
# Go Kid Go
# Modulate
# Party Crashers
# Between Cafes
# The Informers
# Working Class Jacket
# You Belong With Us
References
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1999 albums
My Favorite albums